Higher order thinking, known as higher order thinking skills (HOTS), is a concept of education reform based on learning taxonomies (such as Bloom’s taxonomy). The idea is that some types of learning require more cognitive processing than others, but also have more generalized benefits.

Figurative language is a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning. Common in comparisons and exaggerations, figurative language is usually used to add creative flourish to written or spoken language or explain a complicated idea.

Auditory processing is how the brain identifies and understands sound information. For there to be successful auditory processing children require certain skills. Skills such as the ability to detect a sound or to differentiate between sounds, and to tune into one particular sound or noise. It also includes being able to give meaning to certain sounds, understanding longer utterances and to be able to self-regulate your own speech.

Articulation are the organs or physiological structures that produce speech sounds. Lips, teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate, the soft palate (velum), uvula, glottis and various parts of the tongue all work to help produce sounds.